> > worst format ever invented by a human.
>
> Hardly. Try UTF-7 or ISO 2022 if you want a truly hideous format; or
> the rapidly deprecated UTF-1. Alex, you're already on record as
> having an axe to grind because UTF-8 doesn't assign single-byte
> characters to Russian characters, so I presume everyone already know
> to take what you're saying with a grain of salt.
It doesn't change the fact that Russians, other than myself, also don't
want to use Unicode in any kind of representation.
> UTF-8 is actually very well done given the constraints imposed on it.
> Yes, it's a compromise, but it had to be.
Charset labeling is a compromise. Unicode is a decision of
non-representative committee, imposed on everyone else by lazy software
vendors who don't want to do language specific processing, but want to
label their products as "internationalized".
> As far as Unicode being irritating (responding to the > > > poster
> above); I think we have to remember that internationalization is
> *hard*, and part of why it's hard is because for the longest time you
> couldn't even write any language other than bastardized English
> (bastardized because you couldn't write words like naïve or résumé
> properly).
I had no problem writing in Russian since I have first used computer in
1985. Neither my parents can remember any trouble with that.
> Now, with 8-bit charsets being common, people living in
> countries where 8 bits are enough (especially ISO 8859-1 countries)
> are whining about the complexity of supporting more than 8 bits.
AFAIK, people who always used more than 8 bits are not the biggest
proponents of Unicode either -- europeans (iso8859-1) and americans
(us-ascii) are.
> I really would hate to see Linux falling behind in this area.
I will rather prefer handling of national alphabets to be done by people
who use them in their everyday life. Otherwise there will be a lot of
pissed off people and unusable software.
-- Alex
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